Coronavirus Thread

Have you tried explaining to her that the people breaking the rules are just a small % of the people that would be outside and in contact if everyone had to go to work as normal?
There is literally no point. She just cries about how I always have to be right, and that we'll never agree. I don't think you can truly understand how much poison Fox News has spread in this country without seeing it firsthand.
 
Dr. Fauci, the guy face palming in Trump's CV19 briefings, and the dude in charge of the task force, seems like a genuine decent human being and excellent doctor trying to do his best in the face of this completely insane administration led by sub-human intelligence possessing man baby.


So of course, the Trumpites are beginning to tear him down.


Ah man, why isn't he treating one virus like the other?

I mean, all diseases are the same, right!
 
There is literally no point. She just cries about how I always have to be right, and that we'll never agree. I don't think you can truly understand how much poison Fox News has spread in this country without seeing it firsthand.
I've been on the internet enough to know some people just refuse to listen, even when you make them think about it enough that they then instead try to deflect with some of that Fox News whataboutism or some Chewbacca defence etc.

But hey, if you're going to argue anyway, why not try...
 
Maybe if Rand Paul and a couple other Senators were on ventilators by the end of the week, they'd take it a bit more seriously.
 
Buddy of mine's ex-wife is a respiratory RN. He's very scared. Experts are estimating that up to 20% of medical professionals working on this could lose their lives. And those numbers are based on Italy's. So here it might be worse.
My youngest sister is an ER RN and the numbers scare the hell out of me.
 
Seriously. I hope states with good governors will go against him and properly close borders with those states not following the right course.
That is a massive constitutional violation and will never happen. I'm not even saying it wouldn't be right, but it can't.
 
MI just officially shut down via Executive Order 2020-21, starting at midnight tonight and lasting until April 13th.
...all individuals currently living within the State of Michigan are ordered to stay at home or at their place of residence, all public and private gatherings of any number of people occurring among persons not part of a single household are prohibited. No person or entity shall operate a business or conduct operations that require workers to leave their homes or places of residence except to the extent that those workers are necessary to sustain or protect life or to conduct minimum basic operations.
There are some exceptions (and they appear to be common sense ones - care for pets and family members, acquire provisions, etc), but MI is now closed.
We could've avoided this if only people had taken common-sense precautions, but nooooo...

--Patrick
 
I'm aware of Trump's disdain for the constitution. I am generally not much of a fan of Trump. I still say that shutting down individual states is a more drastic thing than anything Trump has done.
 
I could see Colorado doing it. Polis has been trying to push to make Colorado do more widespread testing to make us fall in line with South Korea instead of Italy. (Also there's a lot of bio-med execs who have condos in Vail and Aspen who want their shit back, and one county is already getting testing on them. Theoretically as a way to more accurately track spread over time, but we know the truth.) :deadpool:
 
UK now in complete lockdown. All non essential shops / workplaces shut. No leaving the house except for buying basic necessities / excercise. Gatherings of more than 2 people who don't live together banned.
 
Our fire departments just got a province wide restrictions list on all calls. They can only respond to fires, MVCs and difficult extraction cases.
 
There is a 65 yr olds+ apartment building down the street from where we live. The local news reported one of the residents has tested positive for Covid-19.

This story is not going to end well.
 
Canadians are going to be the only ones that get the reference but the message applies well enough to all.

 
You guys in the US, your country is fucking insane, you all know that right? (rhetorical)

Like, that sickness in your (collective as a nation) heads is going to kill so many of you.



You're sick.

 

figmentPez

Staff member
Do Republicans really think that the mass deaths caused by ignoring health professionals are going to be better for the economy? I can't fathom how they think that. The resulting chaos would absolutely be worse for the economy than long term social distancing will be.
 
Do Republicans really think that the mass deaths caused by ignoring health professionals are going to be better for the economy? I can't fathom how they think that. The resulting chaos would absolutely be worse for the economy than long term social distancing will be.
If one million poor people die, that just means less people taking advantage of the system.

To be clear, it means less consumers, scared consumers, higher civil unrest, labor shortage, more unpaid debts, an incredible domino effect of people dying from other sources that can't get treatment, and so on...but what a glorious moment in time for shareholders!
In some perverse way, perhaps we actually should hope that it gets so bad in the USA, compared to other countries that it'll cause a revolution...but it won't. It'll just get horrible, then return to normal as Fox and friends insists[strikethrough] you've always been at war with Eurasia[/strikethrough] it would all have been even worse with medical help or social security.
 

figmentPez

Staff member
If one million poor people die, that just means less people taking advantage of the system.
It's not going to be one million poor people. It's going to be 5 or even 8 million people from every walk of life. It could collapse the economy completely.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
My county just issued a 2-week shelter-in-place order.

My company's COO thinks we can pass ourselves off as an essential service (since a lot of what we do involves building and maintaining data networks, so we're infrastructure, right?)... but it seems like quite a stretch to me.

Whatever, I am a programmer, I can work from home.

But our installers are looking really nervous.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
New York State explicitly put data centers as an essential business in their order.
Well, we're not a data center, per se. And the parts of our company (the networking stuff) which probably would fulfill the "essential services" requirement is maybe 10% of our business, and staffed by 4 people.

But the COO wants them to be the excuse why our much-more-lucrative AV department remains open and working, doing conference room, classroom, courtroom, public venue etc Audio/Video systems. Which is a little more of a stretch to call "essential."
 
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